FR #394 | Movie | Biography, History | USA | English
Director
Stanley Kubrick
Writer
Dalton Trumbo, Howard Fast, Plutarch
Cast
Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier, Tony Curtis, Jean Simmons, Charles Laughton, Peter Ustinov, Herbert Lom
Plot
The slave Spartacus survives brutal training as a gladiator and leads a violent revolt against the decadent Roman Republic, as the ambitious Crassus seeks to gain power by crushing the uprising.
FR #2655 | TV | Biography, Drama | UK, Italy | Syriac, Japanese
Cast
Robert Powell, Olivia Hussey, Laurence Olivier, James Mason, Anne Bancroft, Ernest Borgnine, Claudia Cardinale, James Earl Jones
Plot
Beginning before the Nativity and extending through the Crucifixion and Resurrection, this mini-series brings to life all of the sweeping drama in the life of Jesus, as told by the Gospels.
The arrival of wealthy bachelors in town causes an uproar when families with single daughters aggressively seek engagements, including the Bennet family, with five eligible daughters.
FR #3353 | Movie | History, Drama | UK, USA | English, German
Director
Richard Attenborough
Writer
Cornelius Ryan, William Goldman
Cast
Sean Connery, Ryan O'Neal, Michael Caine, Laurence Olivier
Plot
Operation Market Garden, September 1944: The Allies attempt to capture several strategically important bridges in the Netherlands in the hope of breaking the German lines.
FR #3355 | Movie | Crime, Drama | USA | English, French
Director
John Schlesinger
Writer
William Goldman
Cast
Dustin Hoffman, Laurence Olivier, Roy Scheider
Plot
After the murder of his older brother, a New York history student is hounded by shadowy government agents on the trail of a Nazi war criminal who is trying to retrieve smuggled diamonds.
FR #4699 | Movie | Sci-Fi, Drama | UK | French, German
Director
Michael Powell
Writer
Emeric Pressburger, Rodney Ackland
Cast
Leslie Howard, Laurence Olivier, Richard George
Plot
A World War II U-boat crew are stranded in northern Canada. To avoid internment, they must make their way to the border and get into the still-neutral U.S.
FR #4923 | Movie | Action, Drama | UK, USA | English, German
Director
Guy Hamilton
Writer
James Kennaway, Wilfred Greatorex, Derek Dempster
Cast
Michael Caine, Trevor Howard, Harry Andrews, Ian Mcshane, Laurence Olivier, Christopher Plummer
Plot
In 1940, the British Royal Air Force fights a desperate battle to prevent the Luftwaffe from gaining air superiority over the English Channel as a prelude to a possible Axis invasion of the U.K.
FR #4945 | Movie | History, Drama | USA | English, French
Director
Alexander Korda
Writer
Walter Reisch, R.C. Sherriff
Cast
Vivien Leigh, Laurence Olivier, Alan Mowbray
Plot
The story of courtesan and dance-hall girl Emma Hamilton, including her relationships with Sir William Hamilton and Admiral Horatio Nelson, and her rise and fall, set during the Napoleonic Wars.
